..not enough hearts...

No matter how much xmas stuff you got.. you have never enough hearts... I made these ones a couple days ago... I bought a couple wooden hearts at Panduro and tried to "cheer" them up a bit... and grabbed red ribbon bands and feathers and "cristals" and wire and bells and some red beads... ...not that happy with the feathered one but Ove says it's cute and it shouldn't be rejected, so I kept it and is hanging in the kitchen.. the other wooden heart got some ribbon around it and a bell... but it still lacks charm..

I like the twisted wire hearts... very simple and easy to make... just wire, read beads, a huge bell and something to hang down there... tried with feathers here or there but I didn't like the result... you can still see some feather rests somewhere...
The ruby cristals... are actually plastic and were just plain colorless before...

hearts and more hearts...

My mom is very active, she meets almost every month for lunch or tea with lots of "girls", different groups. There's this of schoolmate girls, this other are former work colleage girls, then her nursing school class girls.. and so on.. sometimes with hubbies...


And every december she's hosting several lunches or teas at home. She usually gives out some little memento. I promised her I'll send her something this year...

So I made this crochet brooches, 85 of them and a bigger one for her... sent them by post.




I also made her a couple garlands, also red hearts... The basic heart in this link is the same, I made the finishing border in this backwards stitch for the brooches and just plain on the garland.. and I interconnected the garland a bit different, so the hearts can hang vertically too







and some candle rings, ljusmanschetter.